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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Vote for JUST A BALL GAME? in The Aviva Community Fund

The Aviva Community Fund

The Aviva Community Fund offers the chance to get funding for an important cause in your community.
It’s open to everyone – the general public as well as Aviva
customers, employees, insurance brokers or financial advisers (whether
associated with Aviva or not). Vote for a project for your
community and help make a difference, see the change these much-needed funds could
make.

With projects across the country entering the Aviva Community Fund hoping for funding, there’s bound to be one near you.
And you can help a local project get to the Finals by voting for them!
You have to register to vote, but you get 10 votes to use how you
want. You can give all your votes to one project or spread them around
amongst up to 10 projects. The choice is yours!
So what are you waiting for, start voting!

JUST A BALL GAME? aims to encourage and promote football, sport and
healthy leisure activities among lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and
transgendered people (hereafter referred to as LGBT) regardless of race,
religion, sex, age, physical ability, or disability.
To help build a
LGBT football community, linking individuals, organisations, clubs, and
associations engaged in football/sport, ensuring an effective
communication.
To raise awareness about equality and diversity,
combat discrimination and homophobia in football/sport, and working
closely with other initiatives and organisations working on sexual
orientation grounds.
To promote LGBT engagement in sport and leisure activities through participation and/or volunteering in football/ sport.
To
promote LGBT representation in mainstream football/sport and encourage
LGBT involvement in the wider sporting community from elite to grass
roots.
In pursuit of these aims Just a Ball Game? will promote equal opportunities and encourage gender parity.

To have Funding will enable us too:

Through
the delivery of interactive workshop sessions on LGBT+ inclusion to
local groups our primary objective is to raise awareness of HBT bullying
and its long-term, damaging effects on peoples’ physical and mental
health. We consider the elimination of HBT bullying from sports along
with schools and society in general as central to our mission.

We
will provide resources and training to raise awareness of these issues
and offer solutions to by sharing best practice. Helping people in a
group setting develop a deeper understanding of equality and an
appreciation of how their individual actions impact on other people
around them will relieve some of the unnecessary tension and confusion
that exists around sexuality and gender.

The increased understanding around LGBT+ issues will mean members of the community feel safer.
Through these workshops Just A Ball Game? Will create a culture where EVERYONE is able to ENJOY participating in sport.

Why our work is needed:

Whilst
a lot of progress has been made for LGBT+ rights in recent years many
feel vulnerable and marginalised following Brexit and the views of some
high profile politicians across the world which has seemingly normalised
attacks on the LGBT+ community.

It is well documented that in the
three months that followed Brexit Hate Crime towards LGBT people rose by
147%.Moreover, in a recent BBC report 47% of all sports fans say they
had herd HBT abuse at games/matches and a Com Res survey of 4000 sports
fans 71% said clubs should do more to educate fans about HBT
abuse/bullying.
Stonewall’s recently published Schools Report
worryingly indicates that almost half of all LGBT pupils still face
bullying at school for being LGBT, and more than two in five trans young
people have tried to take their own life.
This displays the evidence base for the delivery of our project.